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Work/Stay at Home Mom Going Crazy. What to do?

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I've been working at home full time for about 6 years and I've always missed working outside the house because as a result I'm very lonely and my circle of friends is VERY limited since I don't have a chance to interact with anyone but my husband, all my friends are out of the country so the 3 friends I have in the states are actually my husband's friends. Now we have a 4 month old girl and I'm going crazy, all I do is clean the house, take care of my baby and work, sometimes I don't leave the house in 5 days because I just don't have the time. Any ideas of what I can do? Where can I go to meet people? I'm getting very depressed and am not sure what to do or where to start. Please help!

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I have a degree in computer science and work as a software engineer. I started out working regular office jobs but eventually went to work for a company where working from home is the norm. In this field it is somewhat more common to be able to work from home because of the type of work we do. You just have to get some experience and then find the right company to work for.

I have worked full time from home for 7 years now. I know how you feel! I have a three year old daughter that I stayed home with full-time for a year (and worked full time). Now she's in preschool and I work my schedule around that. It's tough and difficult to meet people. I used take my daughter to things like story time at the library. Now she's at school during that time, but it was nice at the time. I've also gone to some groups I found on meetup.com that are related to some of my hobbies. Of course that has to be on a weekend with hubby watching our daughter and it is tough to find the time.

I also work from home so I know how hard that can be. I was also missing adult friends so I joined a mothers of young children group at chuch and a neighborhood play group. Try to find a local group to join or hobby.

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